Embracing the strangeness of data
While traversing the accessions data of Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum, one of the largest and most well-documented living...
While traversing the accessions data of Harvard University’s Arnold Arboretum, one of the largest and most well-documented living...
A modern consensus has all but consigned free will to the graveyard of outmoded ideas. But one philosopher isn’t so sure.
Desertification is a serious and rapidly-growing problem across wide swathes of the world, and cattle grazing plays a role in it. But if the environmental and economic success that Johann Zietsman has been having with his herds is anything to go by, the answer may not be fewer cattle but more.
Paul Bogard’s scientific, literary, and philosophical account of why the end of night — driven by unremitting and ever-increasing light pollution around the world — should worry us all.
Theoretical cosmologist Roberto Trotta talks to SCOPE about the anthropic principle, slow data, and his science’s happy similarity to art